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“Through the Glass, Lightly”, IEEE Technology and Society, Vol. 31, Number 3, Fall 2012, Pages 10-14

Steve Mann was recognized as “The Father of the Wearable Computer” (IEEE ISSCC 2000), and the Founder of the Wearable Technologies field; specifically, NicholasNegroponte, Director of the MIT Media Lab, stated: “Steve Mann is the perfect example of someone... who persisted in his vision and ended up founding a new discipline.” - -Nicholas Negroponte, Founder, Director, and Chairman, MIT Media Lab, Bangor Daily News - Sep 26, 1997; quote also appeared, Toronto Star, 2001. In describing how Mannfounded the MIT Wearable Computing Project, as its first member, Negroponte also stated: “Steve Mann ... brought with him an idea... And when he arrived here a lot of peoplesort of said wow this is very interesting... I think it’s probably one of the best examples we have of where somebody brought with them an extraordinarily interesting seed, and then ...it grew, and there are many people now, so called cyborgs in the Media Lab and people working on wearable computers all over the place.” - - Nicholas Negroponte, CBC TV 1996

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Fully functional Implantable Camera System,implanted in a visually impaired subject.

The 50 Best Inventions of 2009 -- Magazine

Filmmakers: Rob Spence and Denys Desjardins ("My Eye for a Camera"/"Mon oeil pour une caméra"), National Film Board;Inventor: Steve Mann, "Implantable Camera System", Canadian Patent number 2313693, July 19th, 2000.

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Mann’s HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging invention is used in nearly every commercially manufactured camera, including the Apple iPhone:

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AR (Augmediated Reality) becomes a widespread phenomenon:

AR+HDR to help the blind;

AR+HDR to help the visually challenged (partial sight);

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General-Purpose Wearable Computing in everyday life:

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Mann’s Sensor-camera (Lifegloging/Lifelogging) invention is now in widespread use:

Mann proposed the Veillance Theory and coined the word “Sousveillance” to denote the inverse of“Surveillance” (watching over). Veillance Theory provides new insight into the relationship betweensurveillance (e.g. cameras attached to property) and sousveillance (e.g. cameras attached to people).

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By Roberta Bell, Orillia Packet & TimesTuesday, March 26, 2013 6:45:03 EDT PM

14-year-old from Oro-Medonte sets her sights onIsaac Newton's theories

Fourteen-year-old Maya Burhanpurkar of Oro-Medonte has come up with a method of measuring thetime integral of displacement and developed a project that proves it has a significance. She will be competing at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Ariz.,in May. ROBERTA BELL - THE PACKET & TIMES

For more than 300 years, the base of fundamental physics laid by Isaac Newton hasremained more or less unchallenged.

Then Oro-Medonte’s 14-year-old Maya Burhanpurkar looked into it.

Until now, scientists have only really been considering derivatives of distance, as outlinedby Newton, said Burhanpurkar, who has come up with a project validating the lastfundamentally unknown quantity in his model.

“Distance, velocity, acceleration — those are all things we’re able to measure,but the integral of displacement is something that hasn’t ever been investigated before,”

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Fingerprint-scanning briefcase designed to be opened by anyone except the owner. Therefore, a security guard

wishing to search the owner’s case must submit to being fingerprinted! Leonardo Award for Excellence, S. Mann, 2004

As a designer, artist, scientist, technologist, engineer, and mathematician, and Renaissance humanist,Mann is interested in ALL aspects of Advancing Technology for Humanity!

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